Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 03/07

20070073637 - Document distribution system and method using webdav protocol: A document distribution system and method using a WebDAV protocol. The system includes a WebDAV server; and a first client to transmit a document to the WebDAV server using the WebDAV protocol, wherein the first client transmits the document to a predetermined directory of the WebDAV server. Accordingly, the document... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070073636 - Dynamic mailbox size configuration by self modification based on historical behavior: The present invention relates generally to call control system sub-processes for a telephone private branch exchange, and, more particularly, to the configuration of mailboxes for those sub-processes. A call control system comprising a plurality of processes, a mailbox for each of said processes, and wherein one of said processes, is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070073633 - Method and apparatus for external event notification management over in-band and out-of-band networks in storage system controllers: Methods and systems for managing user access to a storage system storage controller are provided. In particular, user login requirements and permissions are administered, and individual user and external user interface pairs are tracked, through a user table and a session table established as part of the storage system controller.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070073640 - Method and system for distributing software features to a computer: A method (300) of distributing software features (particularly software products having a global portion and a user portion necessary for activating the software products) to client workstations of a network; each client workstation has a multi-user operating system, and may be accessed (327-328) with different user profiles each one associated... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070073634 - Non-indexed in-memory data storage and retrieval: Systems, methods and user interfaces that allow rapid storage and retrieval of trading data are provided. Trading data records are arranged as a non-indexed collection of data records. The physical location of trading data records stored in a computer-readable medium corresponds to the order that queries are performed. Queries may... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20070073639 - Resilient data storage on optical media: A data resilience component ensures data integrity by storing a data file and a copy thereof in non-overlapping sectors along the spiral information track of an optical storage medium. The number and location of sectors of the optical storage medium are determined, and, in dependence on this data, the number... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070073632 - Setting up a communication connection using an embedded unique communication identifier: The invention relates to a system to be used for setting up a communication connection between a number of communication devices across a communication network. The system comprises a similar number of identification means in which the same unique communication identifier is embedded; the communication identifier is unique on the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070073638 - System and method for using soft links to managed content: A system and method for using soft links to managed content is described, wherein data is stored within a content repository in the form of nodes arranged in a hierarchical structure. Soft links are created and associated with content nodes by having a reference pointer to a node that is... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073635 - Table rows filter: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a table rows filter. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes loading data into a table node data structure memory, the table node data structure including node elements and attributes, each of the node elements including a... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070073645 - Apparatus and method for identifying relationship mismatches during profiling of multiple data sources: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to receive a request to compare a first data set and a second data set. Data from the first data set and the second data set is ordered to comply with specified criteria and thereby form ordered data. The ordered data is joined... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070073644 - Database optimization apparatus and method: A database optimizer collects statistics regarding applications accessing a database, and makes one or more changes to the database schema to optimize performance according to the collected statistics. In a first embodiment, the optimizer detects when a certain type of application accesses the database a percentage of time that exceeds... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070073641 - Method and system for improving search results: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner improves the results of online or network-based search. An exemplary method according to the invention is a method for improving search results by first receiving a search query containing one or more query terms from a user, and... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073643 - Multi-tiered query processing techniques for minus and intersect operators: Various techniques are described for processing database commands that include MINUS and/or INTERSECT operators. The queries containing the MINUS and/or INTERSECT operators are transformed to create a plurality of transformed queries. Each of the transformed queries produces the same result as the original query, but does not include the MINUS... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070073647 - Optimizing access to a database: A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for optimizing a SQL query, in which the SQL query includes an IN-List. An evaluation is performed to determine whether the IN-List query can be performed as a join operation. If so, a new access path that converting IN-List to a... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070073642 - Parallel query processing techniques for minus and intersect operators: Various techniques are described for processing database commands that include MINUS and/or INTERSECT operators. According to one technique, the database server executes the MINUS/INTERSECT in a specialized rowsource in parallel. In one approach, the specialized rowsource implements a sort merge-join like solution, where: a DISTINCT SORT is performed on each... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070073646 - User profiler: In a user profiler used for program recommendation, a user profile which differs particularly according to the season is extracted, saved and appropriately re-used. For this purpose, there are provided a user profiler which extracts user profiles based on program information and a user's view history, and a profile memory... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070073657 - Apparatus and method for utilizing a materialized query table in a computer database system: An apparatus and method to utilize MQTs in a more efficient manner a computer database to improve database performance and utility. In preferred embodiments, the query optimizer determines if a valid but non-refreshed MQT exists and rewrites a query to operate over the MQT and over the base tables and... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070073666 - Data transmission system, data transmission method, data transmission apparatus, and computer usable medium therefor: A data transmission system having a server and a search criterion setting system is further provided with a preliminary search system, a preliminary obtaining system, an entry information notifying system, a search criterion storing system, a substantial search system, a substantial obtaining system, an extracting system, and a data transmitting... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070073662 - Data transmission system, device, and method: There is provided a data transmission device, which comprises a user input reception unit, a display unit, a directory selection unit configured to select a directory from among a plurality of directories in a hierarchical directory structure in accordance with an input for directory selection, a lower directory acquisition unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070073650 - Displaying information on a mobile device: A computer-implemented method for providing hypertext content to a mobile device may include obtaining a network-accessible electronic document that has content and an image, advertising material, or a plurality of similarly formatted hyperlinks. The network-accessible electronic document may be reformatted by collapsing the image, the advertising material, or the plurality... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070073658 - Efficient handling of multipart queries against relational data: A query having multiple parts may be processed to form an intermediate results set. This intermediate results set may be partitioned into a plurality of groups. Thereafter, the groups may be sorted into a plurality of containers so that each container contains data sufficient to calculate one requested result in... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070073655 - Enhancing tables and sql interaction with queue semantics: A database management system returns data from a database table in response to a database query. It does so by accessing an ordered list that indicates an order of retrieval for one or more rows in the database table and returning data from a row that is first in the... Agent: Harden E. Stevens, Iii Intellectual Property Section

20070073668 - Expanded inverted index: Indexing documents is accomplished by generating an inverted index for a collection of one or more documents. The inverted index includes an inverted list for an index term appearing in one or more of the documents in the collection, and one or more postings. A posting includes a document identifier... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070073665 - Information providing system and information providing method: An information providing system 1 comprises an inhibition storing section 101 for preliminary storing inhibition information relating to inhibition factors corresponding to scheduled information relating to the scheduled activity; a candidate storing section 102 for preliminary storing candidate information relating to candidates of a coping method corresponding to the inhibition... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070073649 - Information recording device, information recording method, and information recording program: Information items related to a plurality of musical pieces designated can be stored at a time. A storage means 1a can hold the information items related to contents. A receiving means 1b receives information items related to a plurality of contents broadcast. A temporary storage means 1c stores the information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070073652 - Lightweight reference user interface: A lightweight information user interface is provided for displaying information about a selected text item, data item or other object in an electronic document that minimizes interruption of workflow with the electronic document. Upon selection of an item in an electronic document a quick look-up function may be invoked for... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070073664 - Method and system for transmitting pre-formulated query to database: A method of transmitting a query to a database, the method including: maintaining a database gateway storing at least one query corresponding to a predetermined group identifier and a query identifier; maintaining a database list of a plurality of databases connected to the database gateway; receiving a group identifier and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073660 - Method of validating requests for sender reputation information: A method of validating queries for reputation scores of message senders comprises receiving, from a first host computer, a DNS format query to obtain a reputation score associated with a second host computer, wherein the query includes an authentication code; validating the authentication code; and only when validating the authentication... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070073654 - Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing diagnoses in healthcare databases: Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing diagnoses stored in healthcare databases are provided. A diagnosis query associated with a single patient or a group of patients is received. Query results are provided responsive to the diagnosis query. The query results may include diagnoses from multiple sources that are... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070073653 - Patent related search method and system: A method and system for searching patent-related documents includes selecting a portion of a selected claim of a patent and selecting a portion of a disclosure of the patent. The method further includes comparing the claim portion with the disclosure portion. Based on the comparison, claim interpretation data may be... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070073648 - Search device and information providing system: A search device and an information providing system are structured, to lessen a user's operation load, such that a crawling portion executes a crawling while sequentially changing an expansion header indicating a voice display capacity in an HTTP request into a voice display capacity of a typical model within each... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070073667 - Search system and method using a plurality of searching criterion: Disclosed is a search system using a plurality of search references, and a search method thereof. When a search word is provided by a user terminal through a network, search targets to be searched are established based on the search word. The search process is performed by applying different search... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073659 - System and method for negotiating term and condition entries of a legal document: The present invention provides a method for negotiating term and condition entries of a legal document. The method includes the steps of: setting contact information of users related to the legal document; displaying term and condition entries of the legal document; reviewing the term and condition entries; determining whether the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070073663 - System and method for providing full-text searching of managed content: A system and method for providing full text searching of content within a content management system are disclosed. A repository can maintain content in a plurality of nodes of various content types that have binary as well as metadata properties. An abstracted application programming interface can be provided for constructing... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073661 - System and method for providing nested types for content management: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing nested variables in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing nested variables in a content management system can enable users to model types that can be used within other type definitions. This differs from the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073651 - System and method for responding to a user query: This invention provides a system and method for responding to a user query. An identifier identifies an answer to a user query based on data in one or more structured data collections. A search engine in communication with the identifier searches, based on the answer, a systematically-generated, automatically-updated index of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073656 - Wireless device with application search function: A mobile communication device and method of use are disclosed. The mobile communication device includes an alpha search function adapted to seek and retrieve application names, or application settings, or both from memory in a user-friendly manner.... Agent: William S. Francos, Esquire Volentine Francos & Whitt, PLLC.

20070073675 - Database query translation: A method of translating a relational database query from a first format to a second format comprises receiving a query in a first format, converting the query into a text-only document, processing the text-only document according to predefined rules to create an amended text-only document, copying the amended text-only document... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070073671 - Method and system for interacting with a virtual content repository: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing content management security to federated content repositories in a content management system and for interacting with a virtual content repository. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide secure access to repositories based upon policies defined at... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073676 - Optimizing the processing of in-list rows: A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for optimizing a SQL query, in which the SQL query includes an IN-List. The method includes utilizing an array insert to insert the IN-List into a spool and piggybacking IN-List rows into a join step.... Agent: John D. Cowart, Intellectual Property Section Law Department, Ncr Corporation

20070073673 - System and method for content management security: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing content management security to federated content repositories in a content management system and for interacting with a virtual content repository. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide secure access to repositories based upon policies defined at... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073672 - System and method for lightweight loading for managing content: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing lightweight loading for managing content in federated content repositories. These mechanisms and methods for providing lightweight loading for managing content in federated content repositories can enable embodiments to provide subset(s) of content determined to satisfy the request from... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073670 - System and method for providing an spi bridge for content management system: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing a Service Provider Interface (SPI) bridge for a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing a Service Provider Interface (SPI) bridge for a content management system can enable embodiments to integrate JSR-170 repositories that are not... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073674 - System and method for providing federated events for content management systems: A system and method for providing federated events to content management systems is described. A virtual content repository is provided that federates content from one or more underlying repositories and presents it to clients as though it were contained within one data store. The virtual content repository can include a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073669 - Tagging offline content with context-sensitive search-enabling keywords: Techniques for providing information about “offline” content are provided. In one technique, content (e.g., televised or paper-printed content) is “tagged” with a service-associated icon and a keyword. A person seeing the icon in the content may submit the keyword to the service via his web browser. The service responsively submits... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070073680 - Semantic analysis apparatus, semantic analysis method and semantic analysis program: A semantic analysis apparatus includes a data obtaining unit that obtains data in which an item name and an item value belonging to the item name are represented in a predetermined data format; an item value extracting unit that extracts the item value from the data based on the data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073678 - Semantic document profiling: A method of semantic profiling of documents comprises receiving a document to be profiled, the document comprising a plurality of terms, for each of at least a portion of the plurality of terms in the document determining a part of speech and a grammatical function of the term, obtaining senses... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070073677 - System and method for accessing computer files, using local links and printed symbols: A document management system includes: a symbol (5); a publication (4) to which the symbol (5) is affixed; a computer file with which the symbol (5) is unequivocally associated; a computer (1) or a computer network which can be accessed by the computer (1) containing the file; a reader (2)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070073679 - System and method for generating a bill of material file: An exemplary method for generating a BOM file is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: extracting data on components of a circuit design diagram of a motherboard, and storing the data in an spreadsheet as a non-standardized original BOM file; determining whether the data meet requirements corresponding to designing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070073681 - User profile classification by web usage analysis: Demographic information of an Internet user is predicted based on an analysis of accessed web pages. Web pages accessed by the Internet user are detected and mapped to a user path vector which is converted to a normalized weighted user path vector. A centroid vector identifies web page access patterns... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070073682 - User profile classification by web usage analysis: Demographic information of an Internet user is predicted based on an analysis of accessed web pages. Web pages accessed by the Internet user are detected and mapped to a user path vector which is converted to a normalized weighted user path vector. A centroid vector identifies web page access patterns... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070073689 - Automated intelligent discovery engine for classifying computer data files: A novel software engine employs a method of classifying computer data files that at least includes: establishing a plurality of data file classification rules; choosing a weighted factor for each the data file classification rule utilized; scanning at least a portion of a computer system data files; for each data... Agent: Gregory P. Gadson, Esq.

20070073686 - Method and system for full text indexing optimization through identification of idle and active content: A system for full text indexing optimization that operates based on identification of idle and active content in a content source, and by prioritizing indexing of idle content over active content. Active and idle content items are automatically identified, and idle content items are given a higher priority for indexing,... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070073688 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource are disclosed. According to one method, a metadata association rule is defined for a metadata associator. The metadata association rule specifies a data value to be associated with... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070073684 - Retrieving information items from a data storage: The invention relates to a method of retrieving a plurality of information items from a data storage, the method comprising: submitting a request to the data storage, the request comprising a general classification; retrieving the plurality of information items of which at least a predefined amount of the plurality of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070073690 - System and method for augmenting content in electronic documents with links to contextually relevant information: An electronic document and associated system, methods and apparatus is described. The electronic document is loaded in a user device configured to communicate with an external device that generates instructions for augmenting content contained in the electronic document with links to contextually relevant information. The content can be augmented with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070073687 - System and method for providing enhanced questions for matching in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes a set of questions for... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073683 - System and method for question answering document retrieval: A retrieval device (22) retrieves associated documents on the basis of a keyword contained in a question serving as a retrieval request in question form from a user. The retrieval device (22) extracts descriptions associated with the keyword and contained in the retrieved documents as first summaries. A summary extraction... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073685 - Systems and methods for valuing receivables: The present invention provides systems and methods for processing receivables data, such as medical receivables, to provide the receivables as an asset with a qualified financial value for a financial services domain. The medical receivables data may include an identifier of a health care related service for which a claim... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070073692 - Information processing equipment and method for determining the priority of input keys thereof: Information processing equipment which changes the priority for operations executed in response to simultaneous manipulation of multiple keys in accordance with the operational stage in an application wherein the simultaneous manipulation is performed. Thus, an operation more suitable for the operational stage can be performed even if a user simultaneously... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070073691 - Server side filtering and sorting with field level security: A project management system is enabled to implement filtering, sorting, and field level security for data associated with managed projects. A filter for field selection is prepared by a project client application and forwarded to a project server. The server generates an access attribute table based the user permissions that... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070073693 - Transaction and task scheduler: The described implementations relate to efficient scheduling of transactions and tasks. A memory location, address, or variable previously accessed by a blocked entity is observed periodically to determine an appropriate time to wake and retry the blocked entity. If the previous accessed memory location, address or variable changes state, a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070073698 - Apparatus for managing confidentiality of information, and method thereof: An apparatus which manages confidentiality of information. This apparatus includes: a recording unit operable to record information in association with a history of users having accessed the information, or, with access rights defining users able to access the information; a generating unit operable to generate management information indicating whether the... Agent: Ido Tuchman

20070073699 - Identity management system for managing access to resources: An enterprise network has a plurality of applications or resources and an identity management (IDM) system for provisioning of users at those resources. The IDM system uses handlers and rules libraries for provisioning. The handlers organize provisioning tasks that are common to all the resources. The rules libraries have a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070073694 - Method and apparatus of determining access rights to content items: Access rights to content items, such as personal photos etc, is determined in response to content metadata and requester metadata. A plurality of content items is stored in a content item store. An access right processor determines content metadata for the plurality of content items. When a request for a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070073696 - Online data verification of listing data: A system and method for online verification of data including receiving listing information associated with an entity, determining whether the listing information corresponds to an entry in a database, generating an identifier based on whether the listing information corresponds to an entry in a database, outputting the identifier to a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070073695 - Server side filtering and sorting with field level security: A project management system is enabled to implement filtering, sorting, and field level security for data associated with managed projects. A filter for field selection is prepared by a project client application and forwarded to a project server. The server generates an access attribute table based the user permissions that... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070073697 - System, method, and computer program product for internet tool: A method, apparatus and computer program product for an interface for receiving a user input and a user selection signal and for concurrently supporting a set of service templates; and a specification compiling system communicable to a network supporting the network resource for combining the user input with a user-specified... Agent: Michael E. Woods Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070073730 - Apparatus and method for providing remote user interface: An apparatus and method for providing an image-based remote user interface (UI) using a web browser are provided. A server includes an user interface (UI) application which provides a dynamic image; a server communication module which, if the dynamic image is updated, transmits an image update event for the updated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070073721 - Apparatus and method for serviced data profiling operations: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to establish a mapping mechanism to facilitate access to profile data from a set of client applications. A client profiling task from a requesting client application of the set of client applications is processed to form processed data. The processed data is passed... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070073722 - Calculation and presentation of mobile content expected value: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving data associated with mobile content, calculating an expected value of the mobile content based at least in part on the data received, and presenting the expected value to a sponsor.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073709 - Centralized server-directed power management in a distributed computing system: In one embodiment, a method includes periodically collecting device operation data from a plurality of client devices of a distributed computing system, and making power management decisions for the distributed computing system based on the collected data.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073729 - Computer system: A invented computer system has a plurality of computer boards; a plurality of terminals, each of which is coupled to each of the computer boards respectively via a network; a storage device having a plurality of storage areas, which is coupled to each of the computer boards; and a management... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070073723 - Dynamic bidding and expected value: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving data associated with a mobile content, calculating an expected value of the mobile content based at least in part on the data received, and determining a bid amount for a sponsorship of the mobile content based at least... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073700 - Electronic data exchange system and method: In a system and a method of electronic data exchange for retrieving information used to carry out processes, at least one application is used to retrieve the information, and the application retrieves situation-specific information.... Agent: Striker Striker & Stenby

20070073720 - Email server for processing a threshold number of email jobs for a given user and related methods: An electronic mail (email) server may include a pending email job queue manager for storing a plurality of email jobs for a plurality of users, and a processing email job queue manager. The processing email job queue manager may be for processing a threshold number of email jobs from the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070073708 - Generation of topical subjects from alert search terms: Topical subjects are identified from search terms that are submitted by users registering for alerts. In one implementation, registration requests to transmit email alerts to a user are received and stored. Topical subjects are identified based on an analysis of the email alerts that were registered in a predetermined time... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070073714 - Information providing server, information providing system, information providing method and information providing program: The objective of the present invention is to distribute a variety of information to a user without the user being forced to perform an unnecessary operation, so that the effects produced by information distribution can be improved. An email, which serves as a search trigger, is received from a portable... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070073704 - Information service that gathers information from multiple information sources, processes the information, and distributes the information to multiple users and user communities through an information-service interface: Embodiments of the present invention include information services, methods and systems to facilitate gathering and management of information by home users and professional users of information gathering, processing, and distribution services, and user interfaces through which users communicate with information services. In one embodiment of the present invention, a central... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070073716 - Just in time wiring information system: A just in time wiring information system, which includes an aircraft wiring information system module, a technical reference module, an interactive computer aided cable repair system module, and an e-suite. The e-suite communicates with the aircraft wiring information system module, the technical reference module, and the interactive computer aided cable... Agent: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office Of Counsel Bldg 435

20070073703 - Ldap to sql database proxy system and method: An LDAP to SQL proxy to adapt a relational database as a directory service for an LDAP client is provided. The database may be defined in accordance with a database schema which is external to an LDAP server serving the LDAP client. The proxy comprises LDAP to SQL query and... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600

20070073707 - Method and system for dynamically updating a websheet configuration: A method and structure for updating a configuration of a websheet. A client receives a web page including the websheet from a server. The websheet includes data values stored in a relational database table. The table includes a first set of data values displayed in cells of the websheet in... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070073705 - Method of dynamically linking objects operated on by a computational system: In a method for presenting to a user information operated on by a computational software application, a relationship between states of a user interface mechanism located on a workspace associated with the computational software application and an underlying object operated on by the computational software application may be determined. The... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070073717 - Mobile comparison shopping: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for recording user interaction data through navigation of a mobile search application, and transmitting the recorded user interaction data back to a server for application function analysis.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073718 - Mobile search service instant activation: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for providing a user interface that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating a phone.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073719 - Physical navigation of a mobile search application: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for receiving information relating to a physical movement of a mobile communication facility, and linking the physical movement with navigation of a mobile search application. In embodiments, movement of the mobile communication facility may be detected by one or more... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070073701 - Provisioning a portlet viewer for viewing drag-and-drop content in a portal environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to drag-and-drop operations for content in a portal view and provide a method, system and computer program product for provisioning a portlet viewer for viewing drag-and-drop content in a portal environment. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070073733 - Synchronized backup of an object manager global database as part of a control blade redundancy service: A system and method of managing a switch includes installing a switch having a plurality of processor elements, installing an operating system on each processor element, creating a system virtual router and configuring the processor elements from the system virtual router.... Agent: Michael A. De Sanctis

20070073724 - System and method for automatic or semi-automatic software integration: A system for software integration is described having a graphical interface portion with a first processor adapted to manage the software components resident within the system and a second processor, useable by a system administrator, that manages and deploys the system and its components. The system also includes a management... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070073728 - System and method for automatically managing media content: A method, computer program product and computing device for receiving a request to load at least one new media content item on a personal media device. The size of the at least one new media content item is compared with the amount of storage space remaining on the personal media... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073712 - System and method for modeling and managing enterprise architecture data and content models and their relationships: The present invention is a distributed system comprising client- and server-side components that, together, allow XML schemas or the like to be managed in a collaborative way across an enterprise environment. The server-side component, or server, is used to assemble a collection of one or more schemas. The server exposes... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073711 - System and method for providing a pre-date component in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes a pre-date component that comprises... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073710 - System and method for providing a search feature in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site is operable to populate a queue... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073726 - System and method for queuing purchase transactions: A method, computer program product and computing device for presenting identifying information associated with at least one media content item, the identifying information being presented to a user on a personal media device. A purchase request to purchase the at least one media content item associated with the identifying information... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073725 - System and method for sharing personas: A method, computer program product and computing device for generating a first user media persona on a first personal media device. The first user media persona being based on user data concerning media content associated with a first user. Communication is established with a second personal media device associated with... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073727 - System and method for transferring playlists: A method, computer program product and computing device for selecting at least one playlist for transfer, the at least one playlist being stored on a first personal media device. The at least one playlist is converted to a common format, thus generating a first common format playlist. Communication is established... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070073715 - System and method of real time data accessing and initializing commands via wireless communication device: A method of real time data accessing and initializing commands via a wireless communication device includes the steps of: storing unified data in a unified data repository from corporate databases; logically configuring the unified data to leverage data-driven components and to prepare the unified data to be routed for a... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070073732 - System for distributed task execution: Tasks can be done on a network of multiple computers interconnected by communication links. At each of the computers, Knowbot programs may be received and transmitted on the communication links, and may be stored and created; and execution of the tasks associated with the Knowbot programs may be advanced. Each... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070073702 - Systems and methods for mapping text: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for mapping at run time a value, such as a technical identification (ID) key, to text based on a text association. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving at run time a request, from a user interface at a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073731 - Systems and methods for remote storage of electronic data: Systems and methods for remote storage of electronic data are described. One aspect of one described method includes receiving a signal from a client processor, the signal includes information relating to a file and an action. The method also includes accessing a record in a database based at least in... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070073706 - Systems, methods and computer program products for retrieving and parsing data at runtime: Disclosed is a method, system and computer product for retrieving and parsing dynamic data at runtime by use of an interpreted language script that utilize Java and XML technologies. The interpreted scripting language uses a set of proxies, introspection and configuration to access and retrieve data elements that are in... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070073713 - Term search and link creation from a graphical user interface associated with presentation code: Various computer systems, methods, and associated computer software are provided for enabling a user to conveniently initiate a search of term(s) displayed by presentation code in a graphical user interface (GUI) and to create a link between the term(s) and resources identified in the search. One embodiment is a method... Agent: Adam E. Crall-carlton Fields, P.A.

20070073739 - Data-driven and plug-in defined event engine: An event engine enables application developers to define finite state machines (FSMs) that they want to implement, via a data-driven approach as opposed to having to hardcode the FSMs. The event engine has three notable characteristics: computations may be associated with FSM state transitions, the set of computations that is... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20070073747 - Information storage medium on which interactive contents version information is recorded, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus: An information storage medium on which interactive contents version information is recorded, a recording and reproducing method, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus include minimum markup version information and minimum multimedia version information. Since a markup document can be displayed in a reproducing apparatus having a viewer version lower than... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070073746 - Method and apparatus for managing bookmark information for content stored in a networked media server: A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070073734 - Method of constructing preferred views of hierarchical data: Disclosed is a method of constructing at least one data structure from at least one data source. A representation is constructed of the data source and at least one previous view of the data source (eg. 23000). From the representations, at least one compulsory entity (eg. “branch”) is then identified.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070073742 - Multiple views for breakdown structure centric process representations: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method and process management, and provide a data processing system, method, and computer program product for providing multiple views for breakdown centric process representations. In an embodiment of the invention, a data processing system configured for providing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070073741 - Process contributions in a method architecture: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method and process management, and provide a data processing system, method, and computer program product for process contributions in a method architecture. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a data processing system configured for... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070073735 - Repair of network communication files: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and devices for repairing computer files that impair network communications. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: extracting information corresponding to settings for network communications from a local resource file, wherein... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070073740 - Retrieving a value associated with a property based on a hierarchy of components: A data structure associates components in a hierarchy with corresponding maps that associate values with respective properties. In response to a request to retrieve a value associated with a first property for a first component that is part of the hierarchy, the data structure is accessed in an order defined... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070073745 - Similarity metric for semantic profiling: The method, system, and computer program provides the capability to compute measurements of the similarity between portions of text based on semantic profiles of the text portions. A computer-implemented method of determining similarity between portions of text comprises generating a semantic profile for at least two portions of text, each... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070073744 - System and method for providing link property types for content management: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing linked property types in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing linked property types in a content management system can enable users to specify a new property definition type, which refers to another node instance... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073743 - Systems and methods for monitoring and detecting fraudulent uses of business applications: A systems and methods are described detect fraud in existing logs of raw data. There can be several disparate logs, each including data of disparate data types and generated by different and possibly unrelated software enterprise applications. The fraud management system aggregates and organizes the raw log data, archives the... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070073736 - Transformation directives in datatype definitions: The present invention provides computer-implemented methods and systems for providing a transformation directive in a data type definition statement. The transformation directive specifies one or more transformations to be applied to data before it is stored in a variable of the data type being defined. The runtime framework interprets the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070073738 - Unified method architecture: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for methods management. A methods management method can include establishing default structured relationships between different reusable method elements. The methods management method also can include creating descriptors within a process that mirror the default structured relationships. Finally, the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070073737 - Update processes in an enterprise planning system: An enterprise planning system accumulates newly submitted planning data in a manner that minimizes database contention, allows ongoing entry of planning data, and allows queries against that data to return consistent results while accumulations are ongoing. An “update process” is the set of activities required to bring the entire data... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070073755 - Dynamic binding of process patterns in a method architecture: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method and process management, and provide a data processing system, method, and computer program product for dynamic binding of a capability pattern to multiple processes in a method architecture. In accordance with an embodiment of the present... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070073750 - Editing lifecycle and deployment of objects in an industrial automation environment: An editor in an industrial automation environment comprises an input component that receives modification data relating to at least one of lifecycle and deployment of an object, the object is associated with a programmable logic controller and configured in accordance with a hierarchically structured data model. An implementation component can... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070073752 - Method and apparatus for transposing data trees: According to one embodiment, a method for transposing data trees includes translating a first data tree and a second data tree into a first format. A label within the second data tree is replaced with a label within the first data tree if the data in the first data tree... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073753 - Method and system for generating schema to java mapping descriptors and direct mapping of xml schema and java interfaces: A method and system for generating schema to Java mapping description. In one embodiment, default schema to Java mapping information is customized into customized schema to Java mapping information. An object having the customized mapping information is created, and schema to Java generation is initialized via the object.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073748 - Method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects: In one embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer behavior, technical or scientific information, address information,... Agent: Jonathan A. Barney

20070073749 - Semantic visual search engine: An improved method, device and computer program product for enabling a system to learn, categorize and search items such as images and video clips according to their semantic meanings. According to the present invention, prominent features can be separated from low-level features in an item using supervised learning approaches. Prominent... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070073756 - System and method configuring contextual based content with published content for display on a user interface: A system and method for generating secondary advertising content for presentation on a user interface of a device in association with primary publishing content. The system and method comprise a queue for receiving the primary content including a plurality of identifiable textual elements for analysis as candidates to associate with... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070073754 - System, method, and program product for optimizing a research and grant portfolio: Method, system, and program product for managing research grants. This is done by capturing at least one grant description into a database. Next one or more of researcher capability, researcher availabilities, and research subject availabilities are entered into the database. The grant description is then text mined to identify matches... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20070073751 - User interfaces and related methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata: User interfaces and related methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata are disclosed. According to one method, a visual representation of data to be associated with a resource as metadata is displayed. A visual representation of a resource is displayed. User input... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070073763 - Automated creation of model and view code: A method for generating computer code includes automatically generating a data structure based on a data description. Automatically generating a user interface based on the data description. Automatically generating linking code for linking the generated data structure, the user interface and control code.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073761 - Continual generation of index advice: Continual generation of index advice that includes generating an index advice for an index of a table in a computer database and recording values of statistical attributes of the index advice accumulated across repeated generations of the index advice. The generating and recording typically are carried out continually without user... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070073757 - Method and arrangement for the visualisation of data: A method and arrangement for the creation of a visualisation of data through “tree-mapping” displayed on a monitor with the aid of a computer, in which a structured tree is used to organize data, which data is visually presented through a map consisting of geometric elements. The geometric elements correspond... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070073760 - Method and system for generating schema to java mapping descriptors: A method and system for generating schema to Java descriptors. In one embodiment, a second object having customized schema to Java mapping information is created. The second object is placed within a first object. Via the first object, schema to Java generation is initiated.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073758 - Method and system for identifying targeted data on a web page: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner crawls web sites and identifies specific types of web pages, then extracts targeted data from those web pages. One or more text nodes containing product-related information on a first web page are first identified, and the locations of... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073762 - Method, apparatus, and system for data modeling and processing: A method and system to process a domain. A domain is modeled with one or more domain models. Support models are generated from domain models. An ontological system utilizes the support models to interact with and manipulate the domain models. Further, the support models are used to describe domain model... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073759 - Methods and systems for joining database tables using indexing data structures: A method for identifying joined rows in a database comprising a plurality of tables. The method comprises selecting a group of tables directly or indirectly joined with each other, selecting an order of the group based on relationships among the tables, generating an intermediate data structure which identifies the group... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070073764 - Systems and methods for automatic database or file system maintenance and repair: The present invention relates generally to database and file system management and, more particularly, to automatic database and file system maintenance and repair to ensure data reliability. Various aspects of the present invention relate to responding and correcting data corruptions at a data page level for all data page types,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070073767 - Media identifier registry: A media identifier registry for managing metadata records. The registry stores a unique logical identifier for each of the records as well as a base type corresponding to each of the logical identifiers. The base types are representative of the information contained in the respective metadata records for the corresponding... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070073765 - Metadata-based schema generator: A database schema generator that extracts schema information from the metadata of a database schema editing tool and creates java objects that when run against a target database will restore the database schema including tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, and triggers.... Agent: Hui-min Chen

20070073766 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for mobile media management: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for mobile media management is provided. A user may capture media content on a media device. The captured media content may automatically be uploaded to a management server. Other users may access the uploaded media content from a variety of media devices. The media... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070073779 - Channel switch frame: Methods and apparatus to process multimedia data enabling faster channel acquisitions, improved error recovery and improved efficiency. An encoder device encodes a first portion of multimedia data using inter-coding to generate a first version, and encodes the first portion of multimedia data using intra-coding to generate a second version. A... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070073776 - Digital file management: An enterprise-level, digital asset management system enables users to upload digital assets (e.g., digital image files) to a central on-line site and to view, edit, manage, arrange, organize, annotate and adjust the digital images. Multiple parties can communicate and collaborate with one another in real-time in connection with a project... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070073778 - Graphical, computer-based, project component management: A system, and an associated methodology implemented by that system, for project component management in a defined-phase, plural-interrelated-component project. The methodology includes (a) establishing, for each of selected project components, a component-specific, graphical representation which is presentable on a display screen, (b) with respect to a selected project phase wherein... Agent: Robert D. Varitz, P.C.

20070073768 - Interactive system for building and sharing one's own databank of wisdom bytes, such as words of wisdom, basic truths and/or facts and and feats, in one or more languages: Interactive system for building and sharing one's own databank of wisdom bytes, such as words of wisdom, basic truths and/or facts and feats, in one or more languages, it being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest, by well-defined classifications, that uses a... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070073771 - Method and system for directly mapping web services interfaces and java interfaces: A method and system for directly mapping web services interfaces and Java interfaces. In one embodiment, default mapping information is identified, the default mapping information having default interface mapping information and default schema to Java mapping information. The default mapping information is then update and a mapping descriptor having the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073769 - Method and system for generating a web services meta model on the java stack: A method and system for creating a common model. In one embodiment, a web services model and a web service client model are identified. The web services and web services client models are then unified to create a common model.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073773 - Method and system for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user: A method for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user which includes defining a customized viewpoint for the user. The viewpoint includes a preference for the user that provides an association between a data pattern and a computer network resource. The method also includes generating... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070073774 - Method and system for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user: A method for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user which includes defining a customized viewpoint for the user. The viewpoint includes a preference for the user that provides an association between a data pattern and a computer network resource. The method also includes generating... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070073775 - Method and system for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user: A method for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user which includes defining a customized viewpoint for the user. The viewpoint includes a preference for the user that provides an association between a data pattern and a computer network resource. The method also includes generating... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070073770 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for resource-to-resource metadata association: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for resource-to-resource metadata association. According to one method, a source resource and a destination resource are identified. A type of at least one of the source and destination resources is identified and used to select a transform for... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070073772 - Productivity tracking for printer systems: A method for tracking printer productivity includes retrieving archived data stored on a remote printer that is connected to a network. The data is parsed and stored in a relational database. The data is retrieved from the database and used to generate a graphical representation of the data. The data... Agent: Lally & Lally LLP

20070073780 - Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of still pictures recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: The recording medium includes a data structure with at least one playlist file stored in a playlist area of the recording medium. The playlist file includes at least one playitem, at least one sub-playitem and mark information. The playitem provides navigation information for reproducing at least one still picture from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070073777 - System and method for web navigation using images: A system and method is provided for accessing information content that enables handheld or mobile device users, for example, to quickly and efficiently navigate images contained within the information content to access other areas of the information content. A user of the handheld device will request and receive information content,... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070073782 - File system migration in storage system: In a cluster type NAS, it is necessary to copy file data between disk devices of servers upon migration of a file system or a part of the file system. A server includes a control table for managing a file system or a part of the file system, and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070073781 - Method and apparatus to capture and transmit dense diagnostic data of a file system: A processor selects file system metadata. A processor identifies each unit of data in a file system. The processor determines if the unit of data contains file system metadata. The processor writes a unit of data of metadata to a diagnostic file system, provided it was determined that the unit... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070073783 - Snapshot management apparatus and method, and storage system: Proposed are: a high-performance and highly-reliable snapshot management apparatus and method, and storage system, that can prevent the adverse influence of overhead when they retain a multiplicity of snapshots. An operational volume is set in a storage area provided by a first storage apparatus and a difference volume is set... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070073784 - System and method for type inheritance for content management: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for type inheritance in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for type inheritance in a content management system can enable users to create types that extend from another type rather than create from scratch. The ability of embodiments... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073787 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing databases connected by wireless interface: A method of synchronizing a first database including first data records with a second database including second data records includes receiving information representative of the second data records and modifying the first data records of the first database in a unidirectional synchronization with the second data records of the second... Agent: Geoffrey B.c. Dekleine Perry + Partners

20070073786 - System and method for propagating security information in a web portal system: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for propagating security information for an application between a first environment and a second environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to propagate changes to security information from a first application instance in a first environment to a second... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073785 - System and method for propagation in a web portal system: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for determining an ordering for propagating changes to an application between a first environment and a second environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to propagate changes from a first application instance in a first environment to a second... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070073791 - Centralized management of disparate multi-platform media: According to a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method for managing backup information is provided. The method includes collecting backup information from a plurality of backup products. The backup information collected from the plurality of backup products is converted into a common format. The collected backup information is... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073792 - System and method for removing residual data from memory: Systems and methods for removing residual data on a protected computer are described. In one variation, the location of a directory structure is a file storage device of the protected computer are identified. Information from the directory structure is retrieved and analyzed to determine whether residual data exists in the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070073793 - Free item distribution among multiple free lists during garbage collection for more efficient object allocation: A method, system, and program for improving free item distribution among multiple free lists during garbage collection for more efficient object allocation are provided. A garbage collector predicts future allocation requirements and then distributes free items to multiple subpool free lists and a TLH free list during the sweep phase... Agent: Amy J. Pattillo

20070073794 - Method for garbage collection of unused methods: The present invention provides a system and a method of improving the effectiveness of a data processing application when using a virtual machine, where the program includes many methods, i.e. program sections, that are stored in the memory of the computer used, and where garbage collecting is used by said... Agent: Sheldon R. Meyer

20070067252 - Archiving and data integration system: A system and computer software for archiving image and other data relating to medical research, having the capability to store images in digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) format. The images are retrievable using pointers contained in a relational data base where the image data is associated with experiments... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070067254 - Business model data management: A business model data management method can include identifying a business object within a business object structure document for a business application, locating data management rules for the identified business object in a business object descriptor document, and executing the located data management rules to represent the identified business object... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070067258 - Method and a system for performing a multidimensional categorization of a document repository: mapping the computed objects of the source category hierarchy (2) to the respective virtual mapping objects in the target category hierarchy (3). Furthermore, the invention also refers to an appropriate mapping algorithm, an appropriate computer system, a computer program and a computer program product.... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20070067255 - Method and system for accessing resources: In a method for accessing resources provided by an operating system, a request for a resource is received by an application program executing inside an environment. A first identifier associated with the resource is acquired. A registry is consulted, responsive to an association between a first identifier associated with the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070067253 - Method of downloading and installing a software object: A method of downloading an object using a surface having disposed therein or thereon first coded data being at least partially indicative of a download request for the object, the method including, in a processing system: receiving first indicating data from a sensing device, the first indicating data being at... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070067257 - Synchronizing shared resources in a collection: Multi-threaded access to a collection is synchronized without locking the collection for long periods of time. In one implementation, a collection is locked briefly to allow safe creation of a resource entry (or a placeholder entry) in the collection and then unlocked prior to the start of the resource build... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070067259 - System and method for automated compiling and generating item list information: A portable handheld electronic device provides automated compiling and generating of categorized item lists in accordance with user-defined preferences. In a preferred embodiment, the device includes voice recognition means adapted for recognizing the received assortment data present in received voice data. The device further includes storage means suitably adapted to... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070067256 - System and method for verifying and restoring the consistency of inode to pathname mappings in a filesystem: A system and method verifies and restores the consistency of inode to pathname mappings. In a first embodiment, an off-line verification procedure is modified to verify and correct the primary name inode to pathname mapping information within inodes of a file system. In a second embodiment, an on-line file system... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070067262 - Method and system for optimizing user database queries: A technique for retrieving from a database system data stored in one or more tables is useful in performing cost based query rewrite on user database queries. The technique involves receiving a database query having at least two input relations and evaluating the domain size of the join column(s) of... Agent: John D. Cowart Intellectual Property Section

20070067261 - System and a method for identifying a selection of index candidates for a database: A system and method for identifying a selection of index candidates for a relational database. The system includes a Predicate Analyzer for examining database queries in workload and recording column and predicate information; a Search Engine for performing a combinatorial search of index candidates; an Index Emulator for emulating the... Agent: James M. Stover Intellectual Property Section

20070067263 - System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity: A system and method are disclosed for using free storage capacity on a plurality of storage media as a virtual storage device on a computer network comprising a plurality of computers. A first portion of each storage medium stores data. To implement Virtual Network Attached Storage (VNAS), the respective “free”... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070067260 - System, method and program to assess value of a computer program to a company: System, computer implemented method and program for assessing value of a computer program installed in a computer of a company. Determinations are made as to (a) an order that the computer program is started in a startup sequence of the computer, (b) whether the computer is used for production purposes,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070067271 - Facilitating user interaction through cross-promotion of digital assets: An online user may manage a personal digital library that includes digital assets. A user also may request content to be added to the user's digital library by entering a search string, and related parameters, into a user interface. Any information that matches the search request and currently exists, or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070067266 - Generalized idempotent requests: A system and methodology that facilitate persistence for an execution state is provided. The system and methodology employ generalized “idempotent” request(s) that have the property they only execute a request once, and always return the result of that first execution should the request be repeated so as to ensure exactly... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070067268 - Navigation of structured data: A system and a method for facilitating navigation of stored information. A user interface configured to receive a search input is provided. In response to receipt of a search input, a data store is assessed. The data store may contain various information elements, and each of these elements may be... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070067272 - Search interface for mobile devices: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing a user interface for mobile devices. The user interface can include a search function that utilizes user input to search multiple software applications and data sources. Content can be retrieved and presented to a user without requiring the user to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070067270 - Searching for possible restricted content related to electronic communications: In one aspect, a method related to electronic communications. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070067264 - System and method of forwarding end user correlated user and control plane or network states to oss system: A system is described for collecting data records which have been correlated to subscriber, or end user, access network, core network, transport network, and application service information, referred to as end user correlated data records and utilizing those records in a wireless or wireline network to identify and address corr